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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Sneak Peek: Spellbinders Summer Spectacular! Day One

Sneak Peek:
Spellbinders™ Summer Spectacular Day One

Hey everyone! I am beyond exciting about the new release of
Spellbinders™ Die Templates and wish we could show them all to you, but July
and CHA are just around the corner!
There are some amazing new products coming out and my mind is spinning
with ideas. Today I am honored and
thrilled to be able to share a few of those ideas with you.

Both these sets are so elegant that I decided to create a wedding book that could be used as a Guest Book or even a special little
album to hold some of the cherished snap shots from the big day.

1) To begin, I used Spellbinders™ Grand Calibur®
machine to cut/embossed four, Decorative Grand Ovals One #5 (#1 being the
smallest) from white cardstock. I also
cut two from chipboard; one for the
front and one for the back. I adhered
the white oval to the front and back of the first chipboard die-cut. Then the
last two white ones to the front and back of the second chipboard die-cut.

2) I cut six Grand Ovals #4 (#1 being the
smallest) for the inside of the book. Next,
I cut a Grand Oval die template out of pattern paper and adhered it to the front cover of the
book.

3) I cut/embossed
Lacey Doily Accents, and adhered the strip across the book.

4) To frame the title, I cut/embossed Decorative
Grand Ovals One #1 and used foam squares to adhere it. I used alphabet stickers to create the title.

5) To embellish the book, I added some bling
flourishes and cut out two butterflies.
I used a glue pen to adhere some glitter to the outer edges of the
butterfly and also added pearls to the center. Then I adhered them to the
photo.

6) Next, I cut/embossed a rose flower and an
anemone flower topper; I also added glitter to the edge of the flower and a
pearl to the center. Then I adhered it
to the card.

7) The last piece that I cut/embossed was Spiral
Blossoms One flower. After rolling it
and taping it, I added glitter to the edges and a pearl to the center. I placed them on the book as well.

8) Lastly, I layered all of my pages and punched
two holes through the layers. This
beautiful white ribbon was the perfect last touch, so I strung it through and
tied a pretty bow.

These Decorative
Grand Ovals One die templates could work beautifully on a layout, book, altered
piece, album or even a card! And of
course the butterflies are the perfect touch for just about anything! For my next project, I combined the two to
make a bright, summer card.

The
Sneak Peek: Spellbinders™ Summer Spectacular! Begins on June 21st
and will end on June 28th, 2012. It consists of 24 individual prizes
and one grand prize drawing. Enter
the Sneak Peek: Spellbinders™ Summer Spectacular! by
visiting the participating blogs each day.

At
the end of each blog post, click on the "Enter
HERE" to open the entry form. You may only enter once from each
blog each day.

Spellbinders™ will randomly draw one
winner from each participating blog to receive that blog’s newly revealed dies.
The Grand Prize Winner will be randomly drawn from the pool of entrants who sent entry forms from each and
every participating blog during the 48 hours each blog was open. For the full
list of official rules please click RULES.

*This contest is now closed*

**Enter
the contest by clicking HERE**

There is so much
more inspiration to come and loads of chances to win some of these gorgeous die
templates for yourself! Today you will
find more fantastic reveals and fabulous projects by visiting these two ever SO talented lady's blogs.

OMG! This gets better and better with each blog! These new dies are so beautiful and your creativity with them is stunning! Thanks for sharing and I can hardly wait to get my hands on all the new dies! Every time I think they just can't get any better, but every time they really do!

Just gorgeous! The wedding book is so elegant! I loved that you changed colors and gave us a completely different look in the second card. Thanks for the inspiration. I will definitely be looking for these dies!

Just amazing! I love what you did with the dies. But I have a question, your cut out of the large oval die doesn't have the small holes to the inside, how did you achieve that as the die doesn't look like that.

WOUW what an awesome card here, but these grand dies and these butterflies are also among my all times favorites, so I´m soooooo happy to see these, and I´m very pleased, that you as the first have shown the actual dies today. It´s nice to see, what the dies looks like too, even I have been blown away here today with the start you girls have put to the Frency this time. It´ll be really hard for the rest of the DT members to keep up with this high standard this summer. All I´ve seen today has been totally blowing me out of here ha ha ha. You girls are soooo clever, thanks so much for all the wonderful inspiration today, and your cards were definitely among them hun.

Oh so beautiful Julie. Spellbinder dies just get better and better!! Love your projects - the wedding book is so elegantly beautiful. Thanks for your tutorial and I can't wait for the new releases.HugsHeather (UK)x

SOOOO BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!! Isn't it JUST LIKE Spellbinders to continually come up with these GORGEOUS DIES that we ALLLL WANT!?! :) You did a WONDERFUL JOB on your projects!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE the Wedding book!!!!!!!!! :)Thanks for showing us! :)

This is an incredibly beautiful project, Julie! Any bride would love to receive a gift like the one you have made. It's stunning and to be honest, far prettier than most bridal items I've seen out there in retail stores. :)

Wow... in french we say "Jamais 2 sans 3." well this is true, after Becca, and Kazan, here I am. seeing againg spectacular projects. wow. these spells are on my wish list for sure. wonderful projects. Hugs.

Beautiful Beautiful you did an amazing job showcasing the new spellbinder dies for us today I see many things to use these on thanks for taking the time to preview this to us. You are such a blessing.Hugs,Liz

Elegant was the purrfect word for your project and the dies. But you can also dress them down. The Grand Calibur is on the top of my list but I may have to see just how many ovals will fit through what I have now! Gorgeous, thank you so much.Glenda D

Oh Julie -- your wedding album is just stunning. Those butterflies are so detailed and gorgeous. Thank you for the step-by-step instructions on this gorgeous keepsake. Your cards are so bright and cheerful. I am in love with these new Spellbinders dies (no surprise there I guess)!